The UAE has vowed to protect its strategic assets and condemned what it called an attack on commercial shipping, warning that the targeting of vessels in the Strait of Hormuz threatens regional stability and global energy security.
The decision by the United Arab Emirates to step away from OPEC marks more than a routine policy shift; it reflects a deeper fracture in the logic that has governed global oil politics for decades.
The UAE, one of the world's top oil producers, will pull out from the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and OPEC+ from May 1.
Corbin Bosch and Anrich Nortje shared five wickets between themselves as South Africa restricted the United Arab Emirates to 122/6 in their final Group D game of the 2026 Men’s T20 World Cup at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia launched military strikes on the Yemeni port city of Mukalla, alleging a shipment of weapons meant for a separatist force there had arrived from the United Arab Emirates.
The deal is expected to see Shia-majority Iran and Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia reopen their embassies and missions within two months and implement security and economic cooperation deals signed more than 20 years ago, Al Jazeera reported.
It would be naïve for the region and the wider world, however, to ascribe any other motive than the purely utilitarian to this change in tack by President Erdogan.
On Wednesday, Jaishankar visited the site of the under-construction site of BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in the UAE.
On Thursday, in the immediate aftermath of the agreement, Biden and Lapid mentioned their support for the US-Israeli relationship, not to forget the perceived threat from Iran.
The I2U2 Grouping was conceptualized during the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the four countries held on October 18 last year.
